THE SUMMER'S END-a Lowcountry Summer Novel by Mary Alice Monroe

Another great story featuring the granddaughters of Marietta, Harper, Dora and Carson.  She has requested the three girls come and spend the summer with her-like they used to-one last time.  She has decided to sell Sea Breeze, her home on the island off of Charleston.  It is a summer filled with ups and downs.  Filled with romance, and heartbreak.  A very fast read.

AMAZON - The Summer's End-a Lowcountry Summer Novel

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS WISH by Melody Carlson

An interesting look into Amish culture.  Rachel is staying with her 7 year old niece, Holly; while her folks are on vacation.  It is Christmas time and they are taking advantage of everything the city has to offer.  Then Rachel's brother and sister in law are killed in a plane crash.  How are they going to go on?  Rachel of course will become Holly's guardian and quit her job to care for her.  Then unexpected news of another being named Holly's legal guardian, her aunt that no one knew about.  She is to deliver Holly to her aunt within a week, and it turns out they are Amish.

Will Holly adapt to the Amish way of life?  Can Rachel live without Holly, her only living relative?

AMAZON - A Simple Christmas Wish

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

THE LITTLE AMISH MATCHMAKER- A Christmas Romance by Linda Byler

An interesting and fast story taking you into the Amish culture.  Issac attends the local school for Amish kids.  He really likes his schoolteacher and sets out to set her and his brother up.  He has the best intentions even if it appears to not be going well.  It is also Christmas time and the kids are busy working on their Christmas Play. 

AMAZON - The Little Amish Matchmaker-a Christmas Romance

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

CHASING SUNSETS-A CEDAR KEY NOVEL by Eva Marie Everson

Growing up in Florida and knowing the places in the story was cool for me.  Cedar Key is a small coastal town, where Kimberly and her parents and three sisters have a summer cabin, which they also use on holidays.  That is they all used it until her mother died.  Now her father is remarried and Kimberly has not been there in a while.  She is also going through custody battles with her ex husband and her sons will spend most of the summer with him.  Being at a loss as to what to do her father asks her to go to Cedar Key to hire another care taker for the cabin.  Will she reunite with old friends and an old boy friend?

AMAZON - Chasing Sunsets-A Cedar Key Novel

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

LUCK OF THE DRAW-A BETTING ON ROMANCE NOVEL by Cheri Allan

What would you do if you were separated from your husband and he is killed in a car crash?  Randy and Kate were married for 10 years and have a 3 year old son Liam.  Kates parents are the type that are not involved that much with her and Liam, however her grandmother is.  After his death and school is out, Kate is offered the chance to go to her grandmothers hometown and stay in a friends cabin.  Sounds like a good idea to get away and do some thinking about life and their future.

AMAZON - Luck of the Draw-a Betting on Romance Novel

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

BACKWARD GLANCE by Robyn Carr

What do you do when you are widowed and raising twin four year old boys alone and your widowed mother says she has a heart condition?   You go home, leaving the big city and stress behind and go back to Durango.  Course she knows that John still lives there, but what he doesn't know is that he is the boy's father.  Her mother suspects but is not sure.  Leigh is extremely smart and finished college in her early 20's with multiple degrees. She married an older man equally as smart but someone looking more for an assistant than a wife.   Her mother hopes that she finds love and settles down and her friends are out to help her.

AMAZON - Backward Glance


SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS

SIX MONTHS IN MONTANA by Pamela Kelley

Would you consider leaving your job in New York City and moving home to a small town in Montana?  And, you have to marry your childhood friend and stay married for six months?  That is what Molly has to consider after finding out about Christians grandfathers will.  If she doesn't do it, he will not inherit the money and that means lay offs of a lot of people including maybe her uncle.  She and Christian were good friends once even sharing custody of a dog.  But, will this work?  Can she do it?

AMAZON - Six Months in Montana

SANDY SAYS 3/3 STARS